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Bloginton Blakley

['Member']Joined: February 11, 2019 at 09:56Last active: February 26, 2019 at 20:431 discussions57 comments

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In: Procreation and its Central Role in Political Theory  — view comment
As I said, there, of course was still structural pain. Sounds like the Malthusian trap. And again this rendering is pretty much from the POV of the ag...
February 18, 2019 at 15:59
In: Procreation and its Central Role in Political Theory  — view comment
We evolved to live in groups of 50-150. The manifestations of structure in these condition are different in quality and kind. This has nothing at all ...
February 18, 2019 at 14:58
In: Is reality a dream?  — view comment
. How do you know that? Maybe the tree is exactly as it appears to be and your sense of it not being as perceived is inaccurate. If I use a telescope ...
February 18, 2019 at 09:56
In: Is reality a dream?  — view comment
Why is it important to see things that way? Not being a dick, I'm just wondering. How does it make anything difference if the data we receive is contr...
February 18, 2019 at 07:33
In: Is reality a dream?  — view comment
Do you mean we are dreaming reality or reality is dreaming us?
February 18, 2019 at 06:35
In: Do all games of chess exist in some form?  — view comment
All chess games exist in an entangled state until observed... at which point the probability wave collapses and one possible game emerges. /jk
February 18, 2019 at 06:30
In: Procreation and its Central Role in Political Theory  — view comment
Other lifestyles produce different societies... and therefore different politics. Your analysis is from the perspective of "civilization" and from tha...
February 18, 2019 at 06:20
In: There is No Actual Profit Gained by Business Activity  — view comment
The discussion is about the unprofitably of business. This is easy to confirm from the title. You are unwilling to discuss the topic and have attempte...
February 18, 2019 at 03:08
In: There is No Actual Profit Gained by Business Activity  — view comment
Judaka Poorly figured profit. I already told you. Did you know that you can search for definitions using the internet. It's pretty awesome. Let me kno...
February 18, 2019 at 03:00
In: There is No Actual Profit Gained by Business Activity  — view comment
This isn't really saying anything other than a surplus is extra in some way. Yup. that's right... a surplus is extra. And it is the goal of business t...
February 18, 2019 at 02:53
In: There is No Actual Profit Gained by Business Activity  — view comment
But I didn't make the hypothesis... you did. Can't figure out why I'm supposed to correct your assumptions? The point of this article is that business...
February 18, 2019 at 02:49
In: There is No Actual Profit Gained by Business Activity  — view comment
Oh I see, so you are claiming that the governments of the world are giving people money to buy fossil fuels to keep their houses warm, cook and heat w...
February 18, 2019 at 02:46
In: There is No Actual Profit Gained by Business Activity  — view comment
I'm not making any claims at all about the hunter gatherer lifestyle except that that lifestyle was obviously more sustainable than the agrarian model...
February 18, 2019 at 02:44
In: There is No Actual Profit Gained by Business Activity  — view comment
Unearned income remaining after an incomplete set of costs are figured.
February 18, 2019 at 02:39
In: There is No Actual Profit Gained by Business Activity  — view comment
No sexual reproduction is not enough to account for population growth. People can have lots of babies but if there is no food the population will not ...
February 18, 2019 at 02:37
In: There is No Actual Profit Gained by Business Activity  — view comment
"That is not pointing to business." Then where is the 5.3 trillion in damage coming from? You might also address the actual point of my article... tha...
February 18, 2019 at 02:35
In: There is No Actual Profit Gained by Business Activity  — view comment
This is a bit silly. Humanity is 200,000 years old... as far as I know men have had testicles the entire time. In the first 190,000 years of human his...
February 17, 2019 at 23:14
In: There is No Actual Profit Gained by Business Activity  — view comment
"Most business in the world is small business - farmers managing small, rural lots, streetside fruit and vegetable sellers, cafe and corner shop opera...
February 17, 2019 at 23:01
In: There is No Actual Profit Gained by Business Activity  — view comment
I didn't say business is bad, I said it's not profitable. Why are you so defensive, are you a business owner or something? Being in denial is not maki...
February 17, 2019 at 20:58
In: There is No Actual Profit Gained by Business Activity  — view comment
The ultimate balance is against business, which is what I was pointing out. Are you avoiding the actual substance of the article for a reason>?
February 17, 2019 at 09:35
In: There is No Actual Profit Gained by Business Activity  — view comment
You don't address the article at all, instead you take flight in fancy. Business people are by nature greedy and unconcerned with the consequences of ...
February 17, 2019 at 09:34
In: Is God real?  — view comment
Wayfarer, None of that is really my point. My point is that I have no reason to treat the god idea any differently than I do FSM idea.
February 15, 2019 at 10:11
In: Is God real?  — view comment
And once those things were proven to exist, we knew they existed... That's how it works. First you come up with an idea and then you check it against ...
February 14, 2019 at 18:02
In: Is God real?  — view comment
You are just playing with ideas. This idea, that idea... there is no reason to suspect that the god idea is in any way different than any other myth. ...
February 14, 2019 at 17:02
In: Is God real?  — view comment
Does not neither. ;) You are just expecting me to treat the idea of god differently than the idea of unicorns and fairies... Why should I... until God...
February 14, 2019 at 14:42
In: Is God real?  — view comment
Of course that is the narrative how is a priest gonna have any credibility if he tells everyone that he made up god to give himself authority?
February 14, 2019 at 14:39
In: Is God real?  — view comment
"Unicorns and fairies are factitious ideas " So are gods. If you meant fictitious, and not the very ironic factitious... :)
February 14, 2019 at 14:37
In: Is God real?  — view comment
"Does saying God only exists in the realm of ideas not imply that he has no existence separate from our idea of him." Nope, I'm simply not just assumi...
February 14, 2019 at 14:36
In: Is God real?  — view comment
My response wasn't petty. I was demonstrating how ridiculous it is to pretend that ideas are real. Your honest response makes my point quite nicely. N...
February 14, 2019 at 14:30
In: Is God real?  — view comment
Pretty good argument to be made that god always does what some dude tells god to do... at least in organized religions. If we are talking superstition...
February 14, 2019 at 14:24
In: Is God real?  — view comment
I did not say god doesn't exist. I said God exists only in the realm of ideas.
February 14, 2019 at 14:22
In: Is God real?  — view comment
Unicorns exist the fairies told me so.
February 14, 2019 at 14:19
In: Is God real?  — view comment
Okay, tell god to punch me in the face.
February 14, 2019 at 14:17
In: Is God real?  — view comment
So, my first response to the question: The point here is that no one questions the reality of a fist in the face. We often do question ideas. God exis...
February 14, 2019 at 13:53
In: Is God real?  — view comment
You are mixing two people's responses. I asked if you think numbers are real. Numbers are ideas just like God. Neither did I. I asked. So,I'm not sure...
February 14, 2019 at 13:08
In: Is God real?  — view comment
"numbers.." Are you saying numbers are real?
February 14, 2019 at 05:34
In: Is God real?  — view comment
Those aren't real...
February 13, 2019 at 16:04
In: Is God real?  — view comment
"Is God real? What other real thing do you need to ask that question about?
February 13, 2019 at 15:08
In: Could the wall be effective?  — view comment
Borders are stupid... unless you are the farmer.
February 13, 2019 at 09:32
In: Could the wall be effective?  — view comment
Probably won't be a problem since Canadians are mostly white...
February 12, 2019 at 19:30
In: Could the wall be effective?  — view comment
There already is a wall, and electronic surveillance and manpower. Illegal border crossings on the southern border have been dropping since 2001... an...
February 12, 2019 at 18:34
In: Should billionaires be abolished?  — view comment
"I wonder though how we could control our innate urges to do better than the Joneses" Competitiveness is an element of human character... In our socie...
February 12, 2019 at 14:48
In: The end of capitalism?  — view comment
Here's a vid: https://study.com/academy/lesson/the-history-of-human-population-growth-and-carrying-capacity.html You will note that carrying capacity ...
February 12, 2019 at 14:14
In: The end of capitalism?  — view comment
You've already acknowledged that agriculture supports larger populations. Are you changing your mind? Hunter-gatherers need much more land to live on ...
February 12, 2019 at 14:12
In: The end of capitalism?  — view comment
Are you familiar with the idea of carrying capacity? "The carrying capacity of a biological species in an environment is the maximum population size o...
February 12, 2019 at 14:04
In: The end of capitalism?  — view comment
"Your arguments are nonsense. Human energy comes from consumed agricultural produce" Where does the produce come from?
February 12, 2019 at 13:56
In: The end of capitalism?  — view comment
Definition of agrarian (Entry 1 of 2) 1 : of or relating to fields or lands or their tenure agrarian landscapes 2a : of, relating to, or characteristi...
February 12, 2019 at 13:54
In: The end of capitalism?  — view comment
"it is the supply of agriculture which created the large population." Yup which is precisely what I've been saying. When we choose to live an agrarian...
February 12, 2019 at 13:45
In: The end of capitalism?  — view comment
"Agriculture does not go beyond the energy budget of the sun, so the "false surplus" you refer to is completely fictitious." Are you certain of that? ...
February 12, 2019 at 13:39
In: Should billionaires be abolished?  — view comment
I have some ideas, but it's important to note that I wasn't actually pointing out elements of human nature. What I was pointing out is that the model ...
February 12, 2019 at 13:24
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